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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Sonics |
| Date | Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:41:08 +0000 |
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Both Cloud Eleven releases are essential!
>From: bob_hutton@standardlife.com
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: The Sonics
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:34:47 +0000
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>Hey Miguel, if you like The Sonics, chances are you'd like a lot more of
>the stuff that came out on the Ettiquette label (outta Tacoma. Washington).
>There's a great comp. called "Required Ettiquette" you need to
>investigate. Also a band called the Fabulous Wailers, you'd like their mid
>60s output. They had one vaguely Beatle-esque album, "Wailers Wailers
>Everywhere" I think, before reverting to some dirty garage rock and roll.
>It's funny because the Wailers had been going since the late 50s and were
>the numero uno local band in that area. They took The Sonics, who were
>influenced by them, under their wing. When the Sonics raw material became
>popular in the mid 60s, The Wailers started to become more
>Sonics-influenced - kinda like the teachers learning from the kids.
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>My big (re)discoverys this weekend have been Cloud Eleven's "Orange and
>Green and Yellow and Near" and "Terrestrial Ballet". I bought both when
>they came out, but never really listened to them much. I guess I just must
>have been in the mood for mellow lazy-hazy psych-pop this weekend :-)
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>Bob
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